Inclusive Excellence Faculty Learning Community

What is the Inclusive Excellence Faculty Learning Community (FLC)?

A FLC is composed of cross-disciplinary faculty members committed to working together to reflect upon their teaching and provide feedback to one another. The Inclusive Excellence FLC will support faculty efforts to address equity and diversity at the course level, in the context of ongoing campus initiatives around inclusive excellence (IE).

The IE FLC will meet face-to-face for two hours on nine separate occasions over the academic year. The group will meet seven times in the fall 2017 semester and two times in the spring to develop and integrate strategies. Elements of participants’ spring courses will be modified over the fall semester in order to make their course(s) more inclusive. Changes will be implemented in spring 2018 courses.

#1-7 Meetings (September – December, 2018): During these meetings, we will introduce and share resources about the FLC topic(s) for individual reading and study, discuss resources and implementation plans, and respond to individual progress. Meetings will be scheduled Wednesdays from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM on the following dates: 8/29, 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/28, 12/5.

#8 & 9 Meetings (January and April 2019): These meetings will serve as bookends around the spring course IE implementation. Meetings will be scheduled Wednesdays from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM on the following dates: 1/16 and 5/1.

In addition to attendance at the above meetings, participants will be required to:

Participants (8 total) will be selected based on their commitment to quality teaching and inclusive academic excellence, interest in working within a faculty learning community, openness to making course modifications, and ability to commit to participation and attendance at meetings and other important dates.